With an early bus we went to another tourist only peninsular to put our brand new diving skills to the test. Rushing us into the boat the atmosphere was slightly different to our first diving experiences with no time for checks, people getting lost or running out of air and no dive planning. This wasn't going to put us off seeing some beautiful coral reefs and we decided to take another trip immediately (for which the boat hardly stopped to let us out!). Once down under 10 meters of water we did our safety checks and headed into some channels between the reefs. Unfortunately Lisa's mouth peice broke off and left her sucking water, but luckily we had good training so her buddy (Mike) was there to sort her out. Carrying on we saw some sponges, worms and eels, felt some strange creatures and actually had a really good time. Wouldn't recommend Cuba for safe diving though. We were left with a couple of hours to grab some rays and make sure we were slightly brown upon our return to wintery England.
(thanks to Phil and Semanthi for this timely gift!)The next day we went to spend a full day in the sun, upon arriving at the tourist only island we had our welcome drink and headed to the beautiful white sand beach. Just as we got there however the clouds started to build and within 20 minutes it was raining heavily. So we made some new friends including a French Mr Bean lookalike. Spending most of the day dodging rain we decided to meet our new friends out for a drink in the evening so spent the evening dancing in Vinales successfully trying to empty the 3 bottles of rum on our table for our last night in rural Cuba.
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